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SEO strategy for UK / US websites
Hi Andy, Thanks a lot for a quick response. With some development we could edit our country URLs (the site is on wordpress, with WPML multilingual). We do own palmatin.co.uk but it's not being used right now. Would you suggest keeping the UK site on co.uk and rephrasing .com for the states & international traffic? thanks, jaan
Web Design | | JaanMSonberg0 -
Best strategy for duplicate content?
The bags are produced from different materials and colors. So we have: Non-woven bags: color color color color color Laminated bags: color color color color color Separate pages are done based on colors, because we found that colors are what makes people convert. So they see bags in different colors on the category pages and then open up the color that they're interested the most. On the separate pages were we're also listing all different about sizes, etc. So we don't have separate pages for sizes, but we do have for colors. And they all have more or less the same text.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | JaanMSonberg0 -
SEO for mobile sites?
Hm, there are a lot of subtleties in here. First, if you have mysite.com/flowers and m.mysite.com/flowers with completely different content on them, Google is not going to think they're the same page. They'll rank differently based on their own merits, and Google will probably rank _bot__h _of them for desktop and mobile. Google wants to give searchers access to all content across the web, so if you have two pages with different information, it'll show them as two resources. Now, if you follow mobile best practices, you'll make m.mysite.com/flowers rel="canonical" to mysite.com/flowers, and rel="alternate" mysite.com/flowers to m.mysite.com/flowers. In that case, you're telling Google that mysite.com/flowers is the original source of information, and m.mysite.com/flowers is the same information presented differently. In that case, Google will only rank mysite.com/flowers for desktop searches and m.mysite.com/flowers for mobile searches. I'm not 100% sure how Google will handle the differing content in this case, but my guess is, it'll rank m.mysite.com/flowers as well as mysite.com/flowers would rank for the search, but it'll use the page title, URL, and meta description from m.mysite.com/flowers. Like Andy said, Search Engine Land has a great guide to mobile SEO. I also wrote a guide that's more broadly about building a good mobile site and not just about SEO: https://www.distilled.net/training/mobile-seo-guide/ What's your real question behind all this? Are you building a mobile site and planning on making it significantly different than your desktop site? In that case, I'd recommend that you don't. If you have a video about flowers and 10,000 words of text on it, but both on your /flowers page and allow desktop and mobile visitors to access both. Generally, you want your mobile site experience to be as close as possible to the experience of browsing your desktop site. Otherwise, it's just confusing.
Search Engine Trends | | KristinaKledzik0 -
E-commerce category page optimization - filters vs. categories
Hi! Try checking out this link and see if it helps. Faceted navigation can get tricky. http://moz.com/blog/building-faceted-navigation-that-doesnt-suck
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | dkeipper0 -
What is the ideal URL structure for a multi-language site?
Hi Jaan Yes that's right, you can use hreflang on the homepage also. I would recommend to use the links I provided to make sure the code is exactly how Google describes. I'm not sure what you mean by your second question but I would keep your category structure as follows: Category URL: http://dispak.ee/en/paperbags/ Product URL: http://dispak.ee/en/paper-product/ Doing it this way keeps the URL shorter and removes any issues with duplicate products under several categories. If you cannot do this then there is no major issue having the category name in the URL also, I just prefer to keep URLs short. I hope this helps.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | adammason1